{"id":12951,"date":"2015-04-19T03:29:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T03:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/broadening-the-geopolitics-still-further-is\/"},"modified":"2015-04-19T03:29:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T03:29:46","slug":"broadening-the-geopolitics-still-further-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/broadening-the-geopolitics-still-further-is\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Broadening the geopolitics still further is Gangjian Cui\u2019s installation Rise of the Plasticsmith. He anticipates a time 50 years hence when the scarcity of oil will mean that cities such as his native Daqing, a community in north-east China built entirely on the industrial production of plastic, will be facing terminal decline. The artist posits the rise of a new breed of worker who will use now-precious plastic much as an artisan might: sparingly and with a laser-like focus on the intricacies of each individual piece. To this end, he has developed a set of tables and cabinets constructed entirely out of transparent plastic, using simple joints that have been melted together. The result is delicate, fragile and actually rather beautiful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2015\/apr\/17\/beyond-the-bling-the-most-pointless-luxuries-ever\">Beyond the bling: the most pointless luxuries ever<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.iamdanw.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">iamdanw<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadening the geopolitics still further is Gangjian Cui\u2019s installation Rise of the Plasticsmith. He anticipates a time 50 years hence when the scarcity of oil will mean that cities such as his native Daqing, a community in north-east China built entirely on the industrial production of plastic, will be facing terminal decline. The artist posits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3mT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}